CGSW 11.0 Agenda

CISE Graduate Student Workshop

Event Date: Friday, January 24th
Workshop Research Presentations: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1750 (9:15am-5:30pm)
Award Reception: BU Castle, 225 Bay State Rd (6:00-8:00PM)

9:15am – 9:45am: Breakfast & Registration
9:45am – 9:55am: Opening Remarks: Ayşe K. Coşkun, CISE Director
9:55am – 10:00am: Welcome: CGSW 11.0 Student Organizers: Ioannis Angelakopoulos, Jonathan Chamberlain, Zeynep Ece Kizilates, Ehsan Sabouni

Plenary Speaker
10:00am – 10:30am: Denis Daly, Senior Manager and Architect, Apple Inc.

Session 1: Advancements in Reinforcement Learning
10:30am – 10:45am: Ahmad Ahmad (Advisors: Roberto Tron and Calin Belta), Accelerating Proximal Policy Optimization Learning Using Task Prediction for Solving Games with Delayed Rewards
10:45am – 11:00am: Qinzi Zhang (Advisor: Ashok Cutkosky), Random Scaling and Momentum for Non-smooth Non-Convex Optimization
11:00am – 11:15am: Zijian Guo (Advisor: Wenchao Li), Towards Diverse Constraint Formulations in Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning

11:15am – 11:30am: BREAK

Session 2: Optimizations and Efficiency in Robotics

11:30am – 11:45am: Akua Kodie Dickson (Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Spline Trajectory Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Agents via Convex Optimization  
11:45am -12:00pm: Abin Binoy George (Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Co-Design of Mechanical & Computer Hardware for Robots
12:00pm -12:15pm: Kamran Vakil (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Decentralized Drone Swaps for Online Rebalancing of Drone Delivery Tasks

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch & Poster Session (665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1750)

Plenary Speaker
1:15pm – 1:45pm: Elli Ntakou, Systems Resilience and Reliability Manager, Eversource Energy

Session 3:  Task Allocation, Monitoring, and Control
1:45pm – 2:00pm: Mela Coffey (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Maximizing Reputation for Serving Time-Constrained Tasks with Distributed Heterogeneous Teams
2:00pm – 2:15pm: Brennan Brodt (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Heterogeneous Exploration and Monitoring with Online Free-Space Ellipsoid Graphs
2:15pm – 2:30pm: Alp Eren Yilmaz (Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Accelerating Rigid Body Dynamics through Variable Fixed-Precision with Provable Error-Bounds

2:30pm – 2:45pm: BREAK

Session 4:  Security and Data Centers
2:45pm – 3:00pm: Efe Sencan (Advisors: Ayşe K. Coşkun and Brian Kulis), Refine: Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Production HPC Systems
3:00pm – 3:15pm: Fatih Acun (Advisor: Ayşe K. Coşkun), Conductor: A Collaboration Framework for Multi-Data-Center Demand Response
3:15pm – 3:30pm: Sevval Simsek (Advisor: David Starobinski), Automated Enrichment of Vulnerability Metadata using Knowledge Graphs

Session 5:  Application Specific Innovations
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Ruangrawee (Kao) Kitichotkul (Advisor: Vivek Goyal), High-flux Free-running Single-Photon Lidar
3:45pm – 4:00pm: Zexin Sun  (Advisor: John Baillieul), Structure and Control of Biology-inspired Networks
4:00pm – 4:15pm: Yeping Jin (Advisor: Yannis Paschalidis), Distributionally Robust Learning in Survival Analysis

4:15pm – 4:30pm: BREAK  

Alumni Panel
4:30pm – 5:15pm: BU Alumni Panel: Alexander Bulekov (Amazon), Furkan Ercan (Intel), Uroš Kuzmanović (BioSens8)
5:15pm – 5:30pm: Closing Remarks: Ayşe K. Coşkun, CISE Director, and CGSW 11.0 Student Organizers: Ioannis Angelakopoulos, Jonathan Chamberlain, Zeynep Ece Kizilates, Ehsan Sabouni

6:00pm – 8:00pm: Awards Reception (The BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road)